Banning of Chinese apps in India to loosen…

The banning of Chinese apps in India is rampant and more than 260 apps have been already banned by India’s IT Ministry, as of November 2020. Among several other sanctions on China imposed by countries…

Apple delays iPhone change that’s expected to make…

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the 2020 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.Brooks Kraft/Apple Inc/Handout via ReutersApple announced on Thursday that a planned change to the…

Trump’s ban of Chinese apps has lots of…

Sundar Pichai and Tim CookSource: Reuters; ApplePresident Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday ordering U.S. firms to stop doing business with popular Chinese apps TikTok, owned by ByteDance, and WeChat, owned by Tencent. This…

View: Banning apps a band-aid solution, need a…

By Amar PatnaikMinistry of electronics and IT (MeitY)’s June 29 decision to block access to 59 Chinese mobile apps – by invoking the exception clause relating to sovereignty under Section 69 of the IT Act…

US social media giants like Insta, Facebook and…

(This story originally appeared in on Jul 21, 2020)NEW DELHI: The ban on Chinese apps, especially popular ones like ByteDance’s TikTok and Helo, is resulting in a windfall for US social media giants like Instagram,…